A Florida man reported his perverted father to the police after he reportedly discovered close to 1,000 files of child pornography on his dad’s phone, as reported by the NY Post. The son was reportedly trying to fix his locked Google account, which was disabled due to the abhorrent content.
The Kenneth City Police Department arrested 63-year-old Gene Follin. Follin allegedly admitted to authorities that he was aware he possessed the images. Which included child erotica, on January 28, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Smoking Gun. Follin’s son, Jared, alerted the police to the findings on his father’s phone on September 10, 2024.
According to the document, the elder Follin had asked his son for help with accessing his Gmail account after being informed that it was disabled due to
“sexual, explicit images of children.”
A month later, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alerted the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children task force after a Google account was flagged for uploading child pornography to its Google Photos folder.
A detective from the sheriff’s office informed the Kenneth City Police Department about the alert. This led to a subpoena for the IP address, ultimately confirming that Gene Follin was the account user. The detective then obtained a search warrant for Follin’s Google account. They received photos that had been uploaded to the account between March 13, 2023, and September 10, 2024.
The arresting officer received a secure USB drive that reportedly held 952 files of the disturbing content. One graphic image mentioned in the affidavit depicted five girls aged between 5 and 8. Follin, originally from Missouri, was charged with 20 counts of possession of child pornography, all classified as second-degree felonies, per jail records accessed by The Post. He was booked with a bond set at $100,000 but was released on a surety bond on January 30. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
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